約翰福音5:31-47

 

5:31 「我若為自己作見證，我的見證就不真。
5:32 另有一位給我作見證，我也知道他給我作的見證是真的。
5:33 你們曾差人到約翰那裡，他為真理作過見證。
5:34 其實，我所受的見證不是從人來的；然而，我說這些話，為要叫你們得救。
5:35 約翰是點著的明燈，你們情願暫時喜歡他的光。
5:36 但我有比約翰更大的見證；因為父交給我要我成就的事，就是我所做的事，這便見證我是父所差來的。
5:37 差我來的父也為我作過見證。你們從來沒有聽見他的聲音，也沒有看見他的形像。
5:38 你們並沒有他的道存在心裡；因為他所差來的，你們不信。
5:39 你們查考聖經（或譯：應當查考聖經），因你們以為內中有永生；給我作見證的就是這經。
5:40 然而，你們不肯到我這裡來得生命。
5:41 「我不受從人來的榮耀。
5:42 但我知道，你們心裡沒有上帝的愛。
5:43 我奉我父的名來，你們並不接待我；若有別人奉自己的名來，你們倒要接待他。
5:44 你們互相受榮耀，卻不求從獨一之上帝來的榮耀，怎能信我呢？
5:45 不要想我在父面前要告你們；有一位告你們的，就是你們所仰賴的摩西。
5:46 你們如果信摩西，也必信我，因為他書上有指著我寫的話。
5:47 你們若不信他的書，怎能信我的話呢？」

 

³¹ “If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. ³² There is another who testifies in my favor, and I know that his testimony about me is true.

³³ “You have sent to John and he has testified to the truth. ³⁴ Not that I accept human testimony; but I mention it that you may be saved. ³⁵ John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you chose for a time to enjoy his light.

³⁶ “I have testimony weightier than that of John. For the works that the Father has given me to finish—the very works that I am doing—testify that the Father has sent me. ³⁷ And the Father who sent me has himself testified concerning me. You have never heard his voice nor seen his form, ³⁸ nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. ³⁹ You study^[c] the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, ⁴⁰ yet you refuse to come to me to have life.

⁴¹ “I do not accept glory from human beings, ⁴² but I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. ⁴³ I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him. ⁴⁴ How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God^[d]?

⁴⁵ “But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. ⁴⁶ If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me. ⁴⁷ But since you do not believe what he wrote, how are you going to believe what I say?”

 

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    主耶穌在這裡告訴我們一個信仰很重要的原則，就是「求從獨一之上帝來的榮耀」！也唯有求上帝的榮耀，人才可以認出耶穌基督是上帝的兒子，進而信靠祂，因為上帝要藉主耶穌來拯救我們，脫離魔鬼的權勢進入永生！

 

    人與人之間常常以為看得見的才有力量，殊不知看不見的上帝是我們的力量泉源，祂的力量是來自祂的話語，而祂的話語更是有形有體的成為主耶穌基督，成就上帝救贖的大功！

 

    這當中有許多人不明白的奧秘，卻在這些奧秘中，透過有形有體的主耶穌像我們說，耶穌基督的代贖是實實在在的，也因為祂是上帝兒子的身分，這些作為才是有效的！也就是，祂死在十字架上是真真實實為我們贖罪，使我們有將來完全的贖的盼望，雖然我們現在還不是完美無罪的，但是將來必定完美無罪的！

 

    我們相信上帝羔羊的婚禮，教會也就是全體信徒，必定成為聖潔無有瑕疵的！

 

 

 

 

約翰福音5:16-30

 

5:16 所以猶太人逼迫耶穌，因為他在安息日做了這事。
5:17 耶穌就對他們說：「我父做事直到如今，我也做事。」
5:18 所以猶太人越發想要殺他；因他不但犯了安息日，並且稱上帝為他的父，將自己和上帝當作平等。
5:19 耶穌對他們說：「我實實在在地告訴你們，子憑著自己不能做甚麼，惟有看見父所做的，子才能做；父所做的事，子也照樣做。
5:20 父愛子，將自己所做的一切事指給他看，還要將比這更大的事指給他看，叫你們希奇。
5:21 父怎樣叫死人起來，使他們活著，子也照樣隨自己的意思使人活著。
5:22 父不審判甚麼人，乃將審判的事全交與子，
5:23 叫人都尊敬子如同尊敬父一樣。不尊敬子的，就是不尊敬差子來的父。
5:24 我實實在在地告訴你們，那聽我話、又信差我來者的，就有永生；不至於定罪，是已經出死入生了。
5:25 我實實在在地告訴你們，時候將到，現在就是了，死人要聽見上帝兒子的聲音，聽見的人就要活了。
5:26 因為父怎樣在自己有生命，就賜給他兒子也照樣在自己有生命，
5:27 並且因為他是人子，就賜給他行審判的權柄。
5:28 你們不要把這事看作希奇。時候要到，凡在墳墓裡的，都要聽見他的聲音，就出來：
5:29 行善的，復活得生；作惡的，復活定罪。
5:30 「我憑著自己不能做甚麼，我怎麼聽見就怎麼審判。我的審判也是公平的；因為我不求自己的意思，只求那差我來者的意思。」

 

¹⁶ So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. ¹⁷ In his defense Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.” ¹⁸ For this reason they tried all the more to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

¹⁹ Jesus gave them this answer: “Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. ²⁰ For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. ²¹ For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son gives life to whom he is pleased to give it. ²² Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, who sent him.

²⁴ “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. ²⁵ Very truly I tell you, a time is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear will live. ²⁶ For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man.

²⁸ “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice ²⁹ and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned. ³⁰ By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.

 

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    猶太人要除滅主耶穌有兩個原因：就是在安息日醫治人和「自稱是上帝的兒子，將自己和上帝當作平等」。

 

    這是很有意思的兩件事情：因為在他們的心中將遵守律法看成是完成上帝的旨意，若不遵守律法會帶來上帝的咒詛，讓他們被滅亡，不守安息日就是件極嚴重的事情；另外一件是，就是人沒有資格自稱是上帝的兒子，是上帝是高過人的，人是不可能與上帝同等的！也因此，他們不能接受主耶穌是彌賽亞，是上帝的兒子，是與上帝同等的！

 

    同樣基督徒不是相信有上帝，更要相信耶穌基督：「是完全的上帝、也是完全的人」，之外還要相信「神人二性一位格」！這是因為我們有教會的傳統信條，是關於基督論的描述，也就是「迦克墩信經」。（https://kk1591.blogspot.com/2014/01/blog-post_7555.html ）

 

    希望你能點進去閱讀與思考，論到基督我們不可以不清楚我們該信什麼，該如何表達我們所信的！

 

約翰福音5:1-15

 

5:1 這事以後，到了猶太人的一個節期，耶穌就上耶路撒冷去。
5:2 在耶路撒冷，靠近羊門有一個池子，希伯來話叫作畢士大，旁邊有五個廊子；
5:3 裡面躺著瞎眼的、瘸腿的、血氣枯乾的許多病人。（有古卷加：等候水動；
5:4 因為有天使按時下池子攪動那水，水動之後，誰先下去，無論害甚麼病就痊癒了。）
5:5 在那裡有一個人，病了三十八年。
5:6 耶穌看見他躺著，知道他病了許久，就問他說：「你要痊癒嗎？」
5:7 病人回答說：「先生，水動的時候，沒有人把我放在池子裡；我正去的時候，就有別人比我先下去。」
5:8 耶穌對他說：「起來，拿你的褥子走吧！」
5:9 那人立刻痊癒，就拿起褥子來走了。
5:10 那天是安息日，所以猶太人對那醫好的人說：「今天是安息日，你拿褥子是不可的。」
5:11 他卻回答說：「那使我痊癒的，對我說：『拿你的褥子走吧。』」
5:12 他們問他說：「對你說『拿褥子走』的是甚麼人？」
5:13 那醫好的人不知道是誰；因為那裡的人多，耶穌已經躲開了。
5:14 後來耶穌在殿裡遇見他，對他說：「你已經痊癒了，不要再犯罪，恐怕你遭遇的更加利害。」
5:15 那人就去告訴猶太人，使他痊癒的是耶穌。

 

 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. ² Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda^[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. ³ Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. ^{[4] [b] 5} One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

⁷ “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

⁸ Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” ⁹ At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, ¹⁰ and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”

¹¹ But he replied, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’ ”

¹² So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

¹³ The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

¹⁴ Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, “See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you.” ¹⁵ The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

 

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    這個事件感人是因為有一個人病了三十八年，耶穌看見他躺著，知道他病了許久，就問他說：「你要痊癒嗎？」

 

    無奈他說：「先生，水動的時候，沒有人把我放在池子裡；我正去的時候，就有別人比我先下去。」

 

    因為畢士大，有一個傳說：有病的人要等候水動，趕快下去池子，最好是第一個人，就可以得醫治；因為有天使按時下池子攪動那水，水動之後，誰先下去，無論害甚麼病就痊癒了。

 

    這個病三十八年的人，就是沒有機會把握到第一個！所以，就一直在那裏等很久，卻又不願意放棄！但是，心裡想要卻得不著，因為總有別人比他搶先！

 

    當然他的遭遇也讓我想到自己的狀態，過去一直想要牧會，到過好多地方講道，都是敬陪末座，沒有被聘！好像都沒有被看好，內心也有許多沮喪！還好，上帝有另外的安排，但是那種落空我能夠體會！

 

    期待人會落空，但是遇見主耶穌就不會落空，那人等畢士大池的水落空了，但是主耶穌出手醫治，就得痊癒了，沒有落空！

 

    我們主耶穌的救贖也是如此，雖然很多人信主以後發覺自己還是沒有多大的改變，仍然是「過去的我」！心裡就覺得福音是上帝的大能嗎？心中有些落空的感覺！

 

     其實，我們的盼望不是在今世就得著，那就不叫盼望，我們的盼望是尚未發生，是在主耶穌再來時，完全的得贖，那時我們才能完全更新，成為榮耀的新人，與主耶穌一同坐王到永遠！也因此，主榮耀國度完全實現的時候，我們才能一起享受榮耀無限！您盼望那日快快實現嗎？